I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Peking University School of Government, an affiliated faculty at the Research Center for Contemporary China (RCCC), and the deputy director of the Center for Comparative Party & Politics (CCPP) at Peking University.

My research interests include political psychology and behavior, representation, and politics of identity, contention & discourse, particularly their intersections with developmental, institutional, policy, and leadership dynamics in China and across the globe. I am also interested in international-domestic linkages, and security & conflict. 

My book, Ordering Loyalties: Hierarchical Authoritarianism in China and Beyond (forthcoming, Palgrave Macmillan), examines via mixed methods how China's central-local politics of redistribution and information stratify the multi-layered state authorities in the mass public’s political perceptions, allegiances, and actions, thereby structurally entrenching top-down authoritarian rule. It contributes to a new avenue where the comparative studies of authoritarianism, intergovernmental relations, and mass politics intersect.

I received my Ph.D. in Political Science under the mentorship of M. Kent Jennings from the University of California, Santa Barbara, M.A. in  Public Policy & Management from Tsinghua University, and B.A.s in Political Science & Public Administration and Economics respectively from Peking University. 

I can be reached at yjpku05@gmail.com ;  yjpku05@126.com ; yanjun_liu@pku.edu.cn

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